"thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message
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> "NY Teacher" <nyteacher@goschool.com> wrote in
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>> "thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9D02EDA3FC284thanexit@188.40.43.245...
>>> "NY Teacher" <nyteacher@goschool.com> wrote in
>>> news:hits2h$b02$1@news.eternal-september.org:
>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>> We get it, you don't like Microsoft. Here's an idea for
>>>> you...ue something else. And shut up.
>>>
>>> Great spelling, teach! Never mind the "ue", didn't anyone
>>> ever tell you that since typewriters were replaced by
>>> computers, two spaces after a period are no longer the
>>> norm? And there was ALWAYS a space before ANYTHING
>>> following "..."
>>>
>>> SIGH.
>>
>> Thanks for the information. It amazes me that people think
>> teachers need to be "on" 24-7-365, always spelling
>> everything correctly and always using the latest in typing
>> norms, etc. Hey asshole, it is my day off and it is not
>> worth my time to proofread a simple Usenet post.
>
> Hey asshole, ever heard of spell-checkers? And do you habitually
> (look it up) turn off your brain when you are not corrupting and
> brainwashing your victims in school?
Yep, I use spell checkers on important things, not Usenet.
And it is not that I turn off my brain when away from school, it is merely
that I don't feel the need to be perfect anymore.
If I thought you knew anything about me, or if I thought you were a person
whose opinion was worthy of anything, I would hurt by your assessment of my
teaching abilities. Since neither is the case, you are accomplishing
nothing (except coming dangerously close to libelous defamation) other than
wasting your time and mine. I care greatly for my students, even the
belligerent ignorant assholes like you. They all leave my class more
educated and more talented than when they enter, and they all leave with a
newfound appreciation for history. I make more difference for the good of
the world in one day than you have likely made in your entire life.
>
>> The "ue" and the missing space after the ellipsis were
>> simple typos. No one should ever be criticized for a typo
>> except for formal reports.
>
> Nothing like high standards. Your students must get into a lot
> of good universities, huh?
Yes, they do. One of my proudest moments as a teacher was when a first
generation American came back from Princeton after her junior year and
thanked me, saying she wouldn't have made it there without my help. She's a
pediatric surgeon now.
As I said before and you didn't comprehend, there is a difference between at
home and at school. When at school I have high standards for the written
word...when at home I couldn't care less. To put it into a situation you
will understand: When you are at home, your wife holds you to low standards
of sexual performance based on what little she knows you can do, while when
you are away she expects much more from her men.
>
> And /I/ criticize /everything/. I am a thanatoid.
That makes you a critic. As Theodore Roosevelt said, quite rightly, "It is
not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short
again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings;
but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm,
the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best
knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never
be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Go
to hell, critic.
>
>> Regarding the double space, this comes straight from:
>> http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/onetwospaces.ht
>> m
>>
>> "The Bottomline: Professional typesetters, designers, and
>> desktop publishers should use one space only. Save the
>> double spaces for typewriting, email, term papers (if
>> prescribed by the style guide you are using), or personal
>> correspondence. For everyone else, do whatever makes you
>> feel good."
>
> I didn't want to go into details, but I'm glad you had a chance
> to educate yourself a little in your "brain on off" time.
It's actually something I have known for a long time.
> Anyway, that's basically correct. But Usenet is NOT email,
No, but it is personal correspondence. And it makes me feel good, not
fighting the muscle memory from two and a half Masters' degrees worth of
papers and essays. And now, since I know it annoys you and your little mind
so much, it gives me great pleasure to double space my hard stops. So
there.
> especially if you use Outlook Express like you do, and something
> tells me you do NOT have it set to a non-proportional font (look
> it up), but the default, whatever it may be. But since MS chose
> it for you, it must be good, right, teach?
Actually one of the things I dislike about MS is that they make it harder
and harder to tweak settings. I remember spending many hours experimenting
and trying to squeeze just a little bit more available conventional memory
from DOS. That was back when I was really into computers. Now I am just a
power user. Even if I double space.
>
>> Seems like "the norm" you follow isn't a "norm" for this
>> forum after all.
>
> There no more norms.
And you criticize my grammar? Ever heard of a verb? Look it up.
If a Hitler was in power worldwide, or when
> NWO takes over, there may be norms, non-adherence to which may
> be punishable by death. For now, I have /my/ norms, so fuck you.
You wish. Sorry, I don't swing that way.
> Notwithstanding, you are free to follow your own norms, however
> misguided and ignorant (original meaning, look it up) they may
> be.
Thanks for your permission. So, in addition to being a world-class jerk, you
are an arrogant one too, thinking I need your permission to do things. I
normally like arrogance, but you have shown nothing to back it up.
>
>> Now, do you want to engage in a conversation about
>> something that really matters, or are you the kind of
>> person who only gets his/her rocks off by blindly
>> criticizing others?
>
> Come up with an interesting subject and let's go.
Okay, how about the proper US response to the tragedy in Haiti?
How about the lack of a bargaining agreement in the NFL?
How about the whole Leno-Conan situation?
All of which are more important than how someone spaces his or her
posts on a usenet forum.
Just leave MS
> out of it since we already know you are a bleating sheep when it
> comes to computers.
Actually, you know nothing about my hardware and software preferences. You
assume too much.
I do find it interesting that in one sentence you ask to fuck me and in the
other you call me a sheep. LOL That says so much about you.
NYT
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